{"id":30813,"date":"2022-11-25T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gentrylane.com\/s\/?p=30813"},"modified":"2022-11-26T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T15:37:56","slug":"1997-kia-elan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentrylane.ca\/s\/import-inventory\/1997-kia-elan","title":{"rendered":"1997 Kia Elan Vigato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"alignwide has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:70px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">1997 Kia Lotus Elan Vigato<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By September 1995 it looked as though it was the end of the road for the Elan \u2013 but then Kia swooped in and bought the rights and the tooling to produce the car. The Korean company wanted the Elan as a halo model to funk up its range, but only in its home market, although a few cars would be sold overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kia Elan was produced from 1996 through 1997. It was a rebadged version of the Lotus Type M100 Elan which had been produced from 1989 through 1995. The front-engined, front wheel driver vehicle was offered as a 2-door convertible roadster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"gt3pg_gallery1\" class=\"gt3pg_galleryid-30813 gt3pg_gallery-columns-3 gt3pg_photo_gallery gt3pg-corner-type-standard gt3pg_hover-default gt3pg-type-rectangle\" data-size=\"thumbnail\" data-type=\"rectangle\" data-corner=\"standard\" data-link=\"lightbox\" data-margin=\"30\" data-instance=\"1\"><figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gentrylane.ca\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-copy-5-768x512.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap landscape\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/gentrylane.ca\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-copy-5-768x512.jpg);\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1280\" data-i=\"1\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" 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